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  • EU questions whether Apple has changed anything after its $1.95 billion fine

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    rob53 said:
    As I've said many times before, people have plenty of choices on what products they want to buy. If you don't like Apple's way of doing things go with an Android platform or demand a company in the EU to build a new platform. Just because Apple's platform is the one many people want to use doesn't mean the EU has any right to tell Apple what to do. If you don't like what Apple is doing, find another platform. It's just like wine. If you don't want to pay for wine made in the EU, then grow your own, which the USA has done. 
    And in Rob53istan, where Rob53 decides what laws are made and what those laws should mean, that's the way it works. I'm a little surprised that in Rob53istan, the lawmakers don't have any rights to tell companies that operate there what to do and what not. Maybe the ruler of Rob53istan doesn't understand what laws are, how they work, and why they exist? 

    At any rate, in all other places, including the very real European Union, it is not Rob53 who decides how laws work and to whom they apply. 
    muthuk_vanalingamctt_zhwilliamlondon

  • Apple rolls out minor updates to iWork apps

    sphericspheric
    Wow. Didn’t discontiguous text selection use to be a feature back around 2010? 
    appleinsideruserwilliamlondon

  • New macOS Sonoma 14.4 bug kills file versions in iCloud Drive

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    jellyapple said:
    “ The bug has since been reported to Apple.” What? Should Apple apologise to customers? Did I hear anything from Apple? Hello?
    Did they ever apologise for the iTunes upgrade bug back in, what, 2004?, that completely erased ALL attached external storage media that had a " " (space) in the name? 
    avon b7muthuk_vanalingam

  • EU antitrust chief remarks about $2 billion Apple Music fine ignores Spotify dominance

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    lowededwookie said:

    So when is the EU going after Spotify? It clearly has a monopoly on the music streaming business, has squashed competition actively, and returns nothing to the artists.

    Oh wait, that’s not going to happen because Spotify is a European business.
    If you have sufficient grounds to suspect that Spotify was/is acting illegally, reference the legislation and file a complaint. 

    The vast majority of antitrust decisions affect European corporations. lowededwookie just never hears of them because they don't happen to affect his little American tech bubble. 
    williamlondon

  • EU antitrust chief remarks about $2 billion Apple Music fine ignores Spotify dominance

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    darelrex said:
    AppleInsider said:

    "[The fine is] the equivalent of 0.5% of global turnover, so obviously, this is not a fine that would sort of shake Apple as such," [Vestager] told CNBC.

    I don't think Apple is comparing the amount of this fine to its annual global revenue, but rather to its annual EU app store profits. That's not 0.5%; it's more like 130%.
    Yeah, but that can't be the yardstick. "I have a trillion dollars, and I'm using my financial clout to fuck over competitors in this tiny market that doesn't really matter much to my financials — so my punishment needs to be appropriate to the piddling amount I make with my illegal behaviour, and not enough to, you know, actually punish me." 
    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam